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Three Lectures on Gaelic Topics

Author: Pádraic H. Pearse

Gaelic Prose Literature

[Footnote: Read in March, 1897]

THE FOLK SONGS OF IRELAND

[Footnote: Read in January, '98. In its original form this paper was considerably longer, as I quoted in full many of the best examples of living Gaelic folk-songs. As most of these, however, are to be found in Dr. Hyde's Abhráin Ghrádha Chúige Connacht, it is unnecessary to print them here. I would advise anyone whom the somewhat desultory remarks contained in the following paper may succeed in interesting in the subject to fly at once to the pages of Dr. Hyde.]